Thank you all so much for the encouragement I’m sorry I’ve been away for a while battling the terribly dark energy that has surrounded me for about 6 months. I am not going to go into too many details as the ICU was only the beginning. 😂 I’ve been in hell for the past few months. Wrecked my Camaro ...

New YouTube ads that just let companies plug some images and text in and they get played over stock music. Good idea in theory, most of the companies I see using it though don't size/rotate their images properly so logos/text get cut off by square boxes. One commercial I frequently see shows a pict...

What grinds my gears? I've managed to gain back about 50 pounds over the past couple years, after having been down to nearly 200 for the first time in my adult life. That 200 was a bit of an outlier as I don't really know how I lost that weight (happened around 2019-20), but since it's come back, ev...

Early years had Submersed (of course), Future Leaders of the World, Crossfade... I went to so many shows on the ODR/BB cycles, can't believe I'm totally blanking on those eras openers.

So I've been listening to a lot of the Smith & Myers side project from Shinedown (Brent and Zach, respectively), and it's fantastic. And I know the AB guys have so many different projects cycling through all at once as it is, but man, I'd love to see Myles and Mark do something like this. They s...

New Pearl Jam, and it is DOPE. I haven't been their closest follower in recent years, but damn. I am excite!

maximzub wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:52 am

maximzub wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 8:23 pm I just signed up for a speed dating event on campus. Y'all have any advice?

The day is upon us.

Well?! We're waiting for details! How was it?

So here's a random Alter Bridge thing. Had the radio on at work one day, and Rhianna's "Umbrella" was on. And I heard this little vocal run that sounded awful familiar... https://youtu.be/CvBfHwUxHIk Skip to the 3 minute mark, and listen to the notes when she sings "I'll be all you ne...

You know, another thing about WTS that crossed my mind while listening to it again at work the other night -- do you think the sort of "stonewalled" sound that people complain about was intentional? Like, with the addition of the synth arrangements, maybe they were going for a little bit o...

What grinds my gears? I started out the year working on my health (as is tradition), been meticulously counting my calories, keeping a pretty hefty deficit every day, and I've managed to lose maybe 5-6 pounds total. Like, it should be falling off me, and it's not. I do my weekly weigh-in on Mondays,...

Social media kinda killed forums off, which is sad because forums have a nicely organized way of having threads devoted to certain topics. I guess Reddit comes close, but threads there don't stay nicely cataloged like they do here. On the plus side, we can have a nice, smaller, close-knit community ...

Your effort and progress is super impressive, man. That is amazing. Don't worry about the odd up and down. If you're generally trending in the right direction, yourt doing great. Thanks man. Perspective is important. :) The good news, I'm still down 90 pounds from that first picture, and I'll be 3 ...

And I acknowledge that some people are really turned off by an album's production, but it breaks my heart when WTS is consistently listed as their "worst" album by other fans. You know the band hears that, and I'm sure it has some hand in how they approach future writing - and I don't want...

Weight check: kicking off the new year at 251.8 pounds. It's depressing. It wasn't that long ago (14 months) that I was holding onto the lowest weight range of my adult life, in the 200-210. I don't really know what changed, but the last couple months of last year, it jumped into the 220s, and even ...

Macca wrote: ↑Fri Dec 22, 2023 12:35 pmSup playaaaaas

People are reporting that the site has been crashing, etc., and here comes Macca. Coincidence?

Also, holy shit! How you been, sir?

maximzub wrote: ↑Sat Dec 23, 2023 4:02 am

TenaciousBe wrote: ↑Sat Dec 23, 2023 3:54 am Not at all! Or maybe the two of us are the only ones who feel that way (at least within the AB fanbase). I just don't get all the hate.

I have never seen a triple post on here before. You have managed the impossible.

Oh damn. I swear I only hit it once!

I must have some kind of Stockholm Syndrome or something, but Elvis is my favorite producer by far... If I had the money, I'd definitely ask him to produce my album. I'm probably the only one that feels this way though. Not at all! Or maybe the two of us are the only ones who feel that way (at leas...

I must have some kind of Stockholm Syndrome or something, but Elvis is my favorite producer by far... If I had the money, I'd definitely ask him to produce my album. I'm probably the only one that feels this way though. Not at all! Or maybe the two of us are the only ones who feel that way (at leas...

I must have some kind of Stockholm Syndrome or something, but Elvis is my favorite producer by far... If I had the money, I'd definitely ask him to produce my album. I'm probably the only one that feels this way though. Not at all! Or maybe the two of us are the only ones who feel that way (at leas...

Dolo wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 6:21 pm Spending 30 minutes trying to get out from a snowdrift (the winter is quite horrendous in Poland at the moment) before I realized my fucking emergency brake was engaged....

Taking "What grinds your gears" rather literally here...